Category: Class of 2017

(Photo: Over the Monster) After six years of listening to suspicion an innuendo and falling short on the Hall of Fame ballot, the dam broke this January when Houston Astros great Jeff Bagwell was elected by the baseball writers to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Cooperstown Cred: Jeff Bagwell Elected to the […]

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Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez, you might be surprised to discover, is just the 2nd catcher ever to attain the Hall of Fame on the first ballot, the other being Johnny Bench. You read that correctly: Yogi Berra went in on his second try, as did Carlton Fisk (the original Pudge). Rodriguez, joining Mike Piazza from 2016 in […]

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(Photo: yahoo.com) Tim Raines made two big mistakes in his life. The first is that he used cocaine early in his career, which forever tarnished his image and might even play a role in why it took him 10 years to get into the Hall of Fame. His second mistake was to begin his career in […]

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John Schuerholz, now 76 years old, will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum this summer, having been a unanimous selection of the “Today’s Game” Eras Committee which voted last December. Schuerholz got his start in the Baltimore Orioles organization in 1967 and joined the expansion Kansas City Royals two years […]